Elvis Costello says writing about music is the same as dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to do.

Monday, 6 October 2014

Gig Guide October

I like the idea of music being a language.

In the Liquid Architecture concert this week
international sound artists Alessandro Bosett, Makiko Yamamoto, Id M Theft Able
examine the point at which language becomes music and music becomes a language.
October 6th at PICA Main Gallery Space.

Also on the 6th the Borodin String Quartet return to
Perth with Musica Viva, performing Shostakovich and Beethoven at the Perth
Concert Hall.

On October 14th the WA Symphony Orchestra are trialling an
unusual project called The Rusty Orchestra which gives amateur players the
experience of working alongside professionals and preparing a concert. WASO's
other standard concerts this month include the world premiere of Carl Vine's
Concerto for orchestra and Michael Collins in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto on Oct
10/11th. A concert of Liszt featuring Piers Lane is on the 17th/18th and at the
end of the month the orchestra will be in the pit for the WA
Opera's Il Trovatore, which opens Oct 30th.

The WA Academy of Performing Arts is also
presenting an opera this month; Hansel and Gretel opens on the 11th October.
And on October 30th Geoffrey Lancaster, whom I remember as
an inspired early music lecturer and fiery fortepianist, will give an
all-Mozart recital at WAAPA.

On October 24th
the University of Western Australia's new music group Ensemble Hackett will be performing
works for solo instruments in unusual locations around UWA, in a program aptly
titled 'Wandering'.